Corinth Coin: 1960 678
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Coin
Name:   1960 678
Title:   Byzantine Copper/Bronze Imitative Coin (AD 1204 - AD 1261)
    Coin
Year:   1960
Coin Number:   678
Period:   Byzantine
Material:   AE
Comments:   Imitative
Obverse Legend:   [ M-R - UV]
Obverse Type:   Obscure; [Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast]
Reverse Legend:   [MLNOVHL / MLNOVHL - DECPOTHC / PORFVROGEN]
Reverse Type:   Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l. anexikakia
Axis Clock:   6
Weight Description:   0.97
Weight:   0.97
Diameter:   19
Chronology:   AD 1204 - AD 1261
Context:   NB219 B3 P52
Findspot Description:   Agora SW-C
Excavation Date: 4/22/1960, #79
Basket 3, 20-IV
Notebook 219, p. 59, .
    NB219 B3 P52, .
Area:   Forum
Notes:   Study Collection. Data Entry Funded by the Kress Foundation.
skyphate.
"half-nomisma". Latin Imitative, Type A
    Record generated from NB catalogue.
Reference:   Hendy, p. 198, pl. 29, 1-3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Images (4)
Basket: NB219 B3 P52
Notebook Page: NB 219, spread 31 (pp. 51 - 52)